1999 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships

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1999 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
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OrganisersIAAF
Edition8th
DateOctober 3
Host cityPalermo, Sicily, Italy Italy
Events2
Participation192 athletes from
48 nations

The 8th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on October 3, 1999, in the city of Palermo, Italy. A total of 192 athletes, 119 men and 73 women, from 48 countries, took part. The course was traced through the historical centre of the town with the start/finish line on the "Foro Italico."[1] A detailed report on the event and an appraisal of the results were given.[2][3]

Complete results were published.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Medallists[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual
Men  Paul Tergat (KEN) 1:01:50  Hendrick Ramaala (RSA) 1:01:50  Tesfaye Jifar (ETH) 1:01:51
Women  Tegla Loroupe (KEN) 1:08:48  Mizuki Noguchi (JPN) 1:09:12  Catherine Ndereba (KEN) 1:09:23
Team
Team Men  South Africa 3:06:01  Ethiopia 3:06:03  Kenya 3:06:03
Team Women  Kenya 3:27:40  Japan 3:30:06  Russia 3:31:49

Race results[]

Men's[]

Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Paul Tergat  Kenya 1:01:50
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hendrick Ramaala  South Africa 1:01:50
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tesfaye Jifar  Ethiopia 1:01:51
4 Abdellah Béhar  France 1:01:53
5 Eduardo Henriques  Portugal 1:01:53
6 Abner Chipu  South Africa 1:01:54
7 Laban Chege  Kenya 1:01:54
8 Tesfaye Tola  Ethiopia 1:01:56
9  Ethiopia 1:02:16
10 Mluleki Nobanda  South Africa 1:02:17
11 Sammy Korir  Kenya 1:02:19
12 Gert Thys  South Africa 1:02:24
13 Kamiel Maase  Netherlands 1:02:33
14  Japan 1:02:35
15 Faustin Baha  Tanzania 1:02:41
16  Ethiopia 1:02:46
17  Kenya 1:02:59
18 Rachid Berradi  Italy 1:03:03
19 Larbi Zéroual  France 1:03:05
20 Alberto Chaíça  Portugal 1:03:08
21  Japan 1:03:20
22  Ethiopia 1:03:24
23 Shigeru Aburaya  Japan 1:03:26
24 Rachid Ziar  Algeria 1:03:32
25 Teodoro Cuñado  Spain 1:03:33
26  Spain 1:03:39
27  France 1:03:41
28  Uganda 1:03:44
29 José Ramos  Portugal 1:03:49
30 Tsuyoshi Ogata  Japan 1:03:50
31  France 1:03:55
32  Tanzania 1:03:57
33 Antonio Serrano  Spain 1:03:58
34 Hakim Bagy  France 1:03:58
35  Belgium 1:04:00
36 Giacomo Leone  Italy 1:04:00
37 Roberto Barbi  Italy 1:04:02
38  Netherlands 1:04:02
39  Morocco 1:04:10
40 Mark Steinle  Great Britain 1:04:11
41  United States 1:04:14
42  Mexico 1:04:32
43  Portugal 1:04:32
44  Belgium 1:04:42
45  Belarus 1:04:44
46  United States 1:04:55
47  Australia 1:05:04
48  Netherlands 1:05:08
49  Portugal 1:05:11
50  United States 1:05:19
51  Algeria 1:05:19
51 Kamal Kohil  Algeria 1:05:19
52 Sebastiano Mazzara  Italy 1:05:20
53  Germany 1:05:21
54  Egypt 1:05:34
55 Pavel Loskutov  Estonia 1:05:45
56  Algeria 1:05:47
57  Mexico 1:05:47
58  Great Britain 1:05:57
59  Croatia 1:05:58
60  Belgium 1:06:10
61  Brazil 1:06:13
62  Great Britain 1:06:13
63 Alphonse Munyeshyaka  Rwanda 1:06:21
64  Japan 1:06:26
65 Borislav Dević  FR Yugoslavia 1:06:32
66  Uganda 1:06:47
67 Oscar Fernández  Spain 1:06:50
68  Egypt 1:06:50
69  Belarus 1:06:52
70  Germany 1:06:54
71 Sipho Dlamini  Swaziland 1:06:59
72  Slovakia 1:07:00
73  Estonia 1:07:08
74  Lebanon 1:07:10
75  Egypt 1:07:17
76  Poland 1:07:25
77  Estonia 1:07:32
78  Czech Republic 1:07:39
79  Swaziland 1:07:42
80 Oliver Mintzlaff  Germany 1:07:42
81 Lucky Bhembe  Swaziland 1:07:44
82  Greece 1:07:47
83 Glynn Tromans  Great Britain 1:07:49
84  United States 1:07:50
85  Uganda 1:08:30
86 Michael Fietz  Germany 1:08:33
87 Francisco Bautista  Mexico 1:08:38
88  Tajikistan 1:08:50
89  Rwanda 1:08:51
90  Croatia 1:08:55
91 António Zeferino  Cape Verde 1:09:05
92  Sudan 1:09:10
93  Sudan 1:09:27
94 Shadrack Hoff  South Africa 1:09:44
95  Costa Rica 1:10:02
96  Algeria 1:10:07
97  FR Yugoslavia 1:10:11
98  Yemen 1:10:11
99  Belarus 1:10:12
100  Croatia 1:10:13
101  Ecuador 1:13:19
102 Hussein Awada  Lebanon 1:13:35
103  Palestine 1:13:41
104  Lebanon 1:14:05
105  United States 1:14:58
106  Malta 1:14:58
107 Khalid Al-Estashi  Yemen 1:15:40
108  Uzbekistan 1:16:35
109  Palestine 1:18:48
—  Brazil DNF
—  Brazil DNF
— Luíz Antônio dos Santos  Brazil DNF
— Michele Gamba  Italy DNF
— Shem Kororia  Kenya DNF
—  Sudan DNF
— John Nada Saya  Tanzania DNF
—  Uzbekistan DNF
—  Yemen DNF
— Silvio Guerra  Ecuador DNS
—  Ecuador DNS
—  Egypt DNS
—  Egypt DNS
— José Luis Ebatela Nvó  Equatorial Guinea DNS
—  Equatorial Guinea DNS
— Sergey Zabavski  Tajikistan DNS
—  Uganda DNS
—  Sudan DNS
—  Senegal DNS
— Malick Seck  Senegal DNS
—  Zambia DNS
—  Zambia DNS
— Sam Mfula Mwape  Zambia DNS
—  Palestine DNS

Women's[]

Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tegla Loroupe  Kenya 1:08:48
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mizuki Noguchi  Japan 1:09:12
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Catherine Ndereba  Kenya 1:09:23
4 Joyce Chepchumba  Kenya 1:09:29
5 Reiko Tosa  Japan 1:09:36
6 Valentina Yegorova  Russia 1:09:59
7 Elana Meyer  South Africa 1:10:20
8 Luminița Talpoș  Romania 1:10:33
9 Lyudmila Biktasheva  Russia 1:10:35
10 Alina Ivanova  Russia 1:11:15
11  Japan 1:11:18
12 Constantina Diţă  Romania 1:11:22
13 Margaret Okayo  Kenya 1:11:29
14 Derartu Tulu  Ethiopia 1:11:33
15 Ana Isabel Alonso  Spain 1:11:38
16 Cristina Pomacu  Romania 1:11:45
17  Japan 1:11:48
18 Lyudmila Petrova  Russia 1:11:53
19 Agata Balsamo  Italy 1:11:58
20 Jane Omoro  Kenya 1:12:10
21 Olivera Jevtić  FR Yugoslavia 1:12:32
22 Marian Sutton  Great Britain 1:12:36
23 Rosaria Console  Italy 1:12:46
24 María Abel  Spain 1:13:08
25 Lyubov Morgunova  Russia 1:13:25
26  Japan 1:13:26
27 Florinda Andreucci  Italy 1:13:33
28 Tereza Yohanes  Ethiopia 1:13:38
29 Birhan Dagne  Great Britain 1:13:41
30  France 1:13:55
31  New Zealand 1:14:12
32 Gitte Karlshøj  Denmark 1:14:15
33 Lucilla Andreucci  Italy 1:15:05
34 Susan Michelsson  Australia 1:15:07
35 Mónica Pont  Spain 1:15:12
36 Alemitu Bekele  Ethiopia 1:15:27
37 Marlene Fortunato  Brazil 1:15:29
38 Teyba Erkesso  Ethiopia 1:15:48
39  United States 1:15:55
40  United States 1:16:14
41  United States 1:16:18
42  United States 1:16:37
43 Annemette Jensen  Denmark 1:16:47
44  Ethiopia 1:16:53
45  Australia 1:17:12
46 Stefanija Statkuvienė  Belgium 1:17:30
47  South Africa 1:17:33
48 Jo Lodge  Great Britain 1:17:36
49  Poland 1:18:02
50  South Africa 1:18:28
51  South Africa 1:18:37
52  New Zealand 1:19:21
53  United States 1:19:23
54 Nili Avramski  Israel 1:20:20
55  Greece 1:20:45
56  Slovakia 1:21:28
57  FR Yugoslavia 1:21:34
58  South Africa 1:22:01
59  Mexico 1:22:28
60  Croatia 1:25:58
61  Croatia 1:25:59
62 Irina Matrosova  Uzbekistan 1:28:25
63  Croatia 1:30:24
64 Gina Coello  Honduras 1:30:27
65  Uzbekistan 1:35:45
66  Uzbekistan 1:35:45
—  Australia DNF
—  Belgium DNF
—  Bulgaria DNF
—  France DNF
— Sonia Maccioni  Italy DNF
— Iulia Olteanu  Romania DNF
— Valentina Enaki  Moldova DNS
—  Zambia DNS
— Florina Pana  Romania DQ†

†: Florina Pana from  Romania was initially 4th (1:09:26), but tested positive for nandrolone[13] and disqualified.[14]

Team results[]

Men's[]

Rank Country Team Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  South Africa Hendrick Ramaala
Abner Chipu
Mluleki Nobanda		 3:06:01
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Ethiopia Tesfaye Jifar
Tesfaye Tola
 3:06:03
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Kenya Paul Tergat
Laban Chege
Sammy Korir		 3:06:03
4  France Abdellah Béhar
Larbi Zéroual
 3:08:39
5  Portugal Eduardo Henriques
Alberto Chaíça
José Ramos		 3:08:50
6  Japan

Shigeru Aburaya		 3:09:21
7  Italy Rachid Berradi
Giacomo Leone
Roberto Barbi		 3:11:05
8  Spain Teodoro Cuñado

Antonio Serrano		 3:11:10
9  Netherlands Kamiel Maase

 3:11:43
10  United States

3:14:28
11  Algeria Rachid Ziar

Kamal Kohil		 3:14:10
12  Belgium

3:14:52
13  Great Britain Mark Steinle

 3:16:21
14  Mexico

Francisco Bautista		 3:18:57
15  Uganda

3:19:01
16  Egypt

3:19:41
17  Germany

Oliver Mintzlaff		 3:19:57
18  Estonia Pavel Loskutov

 3:20:25
19  Belarus

3:21:48
20  Swaziland Sipho Dlamini

Lucky Bhembe		 3:22:25
21  Croatia

3:25:06
22  Lebanon
Hussein Awada
 3:34:50
—  Brazil

DNF
—  Sudan

DNF
—  Tanzania Faustin Baha

John Nada Saya		 DNF
—  Yemen
Khalid Al-Estashi
 DNF

Women's[]

Rank Country Team Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Kenya Tegla Loroupe
Catherine Ndereba
Joyce Chepchumba		 3:27:40
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Japan Mizuki Noguchi
Reiko Tosa
 3:30:06
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Russia Valentina Yegorova
Lyudmila Biktasheva
Alina Ivanova		 3:31:49
4  Romania Luminița Talpoș
Constantina Diţă
Cristina Pomacu		 3:33:40
5  Italy Agata Balsamo
Rosaria Console
Florinda Andreucci		 3:38:17
6  Spain Ana Isabel Alonso
María Abel
Mónica Pont		 3:39:58
7  Ethiopia Derartu Tulu
Tereza Yohanes
Alemitu Bekele Aga		 3:40:38
8  Great Britain Marian Sutton
Birhan Dagne
Jo Lodge		 3:43:53
9  South Africa Elana Meyer

 3:46:21
10  United States

3:48:27
11  Croatia

4:22:21
12  Uzbekistan Irina Matrosova

 4:39:55
—  Australia Susan Michelsson

 DNF

Participation[]

The participation of 192 athletes (119 men/73 women) from 48 countries is reported.[4] Although announced, athletes from  Equatorial Guinea,  Moldova,  Senegal, and  Zambia did not show.

See also[]

  • 1999 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

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